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6 Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Your Restaurant Business Plan

Up and Running

If you’re serious about opening a restaurant, you’ll have to draft up a formal and accurate business plan to pitch to banks, investors, and even potential employees. I won’t lie—writing a formal business plan isn’t exactly a breeze. It takes a lot of time, effort, dedication, knowledge, and passion to get it right. But if opening a restaurant is your goal, a business plan is one of the first steps toward reaching it.

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How Smart Founders Vet Tech Talent for Coding and Culture [Traction #36: Dan Reich, Troops]

View from Seed

Dan Reich is the CEO and co-founder of Troops, a company bringing artificial intelligence to your sales team’s workflow, right in Slack. (Disclosure: NextView is an investor in Troops.). Today, we discuss Dan’s smart process hiring his early technical talent — both leadership and front-line developers. Subscribe to the NextView blog for future episodes and more resources for seed-stage startups: nextviewvc.com/blog.

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Are We Trading Human Connection For More YouTube Views?

YFS Magazine

Online video and video marketing is on the rise while real human connections and attention spans are dwindling. Is any of it doing the world any favors? This article Are We Trading Human Connection For More YouTube Views? appeared first in YFS Magazine.

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Warning: The Truth Well Told

YoungUpstarts

by Ralph Masengill, author of “ Conquer Change and Win “. After over forty years of studying change, one thing is crystal clear. When it comes to change we only have two choices. One is to embrace change with all of the issues that seems to bring or we can live in denial of the truth that change is always going on and suffer through our denial. Living in a fantasy world of denial can cost us our happiness and often our business or job.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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7 Hacks To Get More YouTube Subscribers

YFS Magazine

Have you ever wondered how you can grow your YouTube channel? If so, these proven hacks that can help you get more YouTube subscribers. This article 7 Hacks To Get More YouTube Subscribers appeared first in YFS Magazine.

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A Guide to Open-Ended Questions in Marketing Research

ConversionXL

A good conversationalist knows that asking closed-ended questions is no way to make real friends. Similarly, in marketing research, there are certain limitations inherent to closed-ended questions. There’s a lot of value in asking both open and closed questions in a survey. This article, however, will dive into the intricacies of asking and acting upon open-ended questions in your research.

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9 Things That Tell You To Pivot

YoungUpstarts

by Jon Leighton, Director of digital agency iResources and founder of neatly.io. ‘Pivoting’ is spoken about a lot in the tech world. Indeed some of the biggest names out there started off as a completely different business; including Twitter, Nintendo and most recently, Slack. But pivoting applies to all businesses and the theory behind it is exactly the same.

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AnacondaCON17: #OpenDataScienceMeans

Austin Startup

Continuum Analytics is driving something very special, and we thought we should share those insights. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Your inexperience is exactly why you should start a startup

Jeff Hilimire

The only real advice I give someone when they tell me they want to start a company one day is: DO IT TODAY ! And the answer I usually get back is that the person doesn’t have enough experience yet. Ironically, that’s the best reason TO start your company. Because the more experience you get in the “real world”, the less qualified you will be to run a startup.

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Valentine’s Day: Finding Love at SXSW

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 14, 2017 Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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EnumSet and EnumMap

TechEmpower

This article discusses java.util.EnumSet. and java.util.EnumMap. from Java's standard libraries. What are they? When should they be used? Could the implementations be improved? Could the APIs be improved? Conclusion. What are they? EnumSet. and EnumMap are compact, efficient implementations of the Set and Map interfaces. They have the constraint that their elements/keys come from a single enum type.

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The Top 7 Ways To Make Your Small Business Look Large

YoungUpstarts

As a small business owner, it is essential that you have faith in your company for it to progress. If you do not have faith in the business and believe the company cannot land the larger corporate contracts, this may be detrimental to success. However, this is not necessarily the stance you should take. Small businesses are able to land larger contracts!

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Nine Ways to Get New Mileage From Worn Out Content

Duct Tape Marketing

Nine Ways to Get New Mileage From Worn Out Content written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. People don’t have enough time to continue to create the amount of content they need to attract visitors and convert them into leads. I get it. Creating content can be challenging and time-consuming, and coming up with new material regularly can seem impossible.